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“We Did This With Gold�: Could VanEck Be Bitcoin’s Best Bet for an ETF?
Gabor Gurbacs is confident that the approval of a bitcoin exchange traded fund (ETF) is inevitable. And he’s optimistic that the VanEck SolidX Bitcoin Strategy will be the first to deliver one to the world.The …
Progress Report: Lightning Network Surpasses $1M BTC Capacity, 4,000 Nodes
The Lightning Network continues to post steady growth.According to data from 1ML, the network is now supported by roughly 4,069 nodes, which house just over 12,500 payment channels, an average of 10.91 channels p…
ICO Issuers Settle Registration Charges With SEC
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has agreed to settle charges with two startups that sold tokens through Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) in 2017. The companies were charged by the SEC for running t…
After the Fork: Here’s How Exchanges Are Dealing With Bitcoin Cash
The smoke is still clearing from Bitcoin Cash’s hard fork, but exchanges have already moved in to add support for the products of the skirmish.On November 16, 2018, what was intended to be a routine hard fork u…
A New Approach to Thwarting “Selfish� Bitcoin Miners
Selfish mining is an attack on the Bitcoin network that has been known to be possible for several years. By propagating new blocks slowly (on purpose or by accident), a loophole is opened for miners to unfairly i…
Bitcoin Price Analysis: Yearly Support Breaks as Bitcoin Tests Underlying Demand
After months and months of consolidation, the yearly support finally broke and now bitcoin has found itself in the lower $5000s for the first time since 2017:Figure 1: BTC-USD, Daily Candles, Broken SupportBitcoi…
Binance Will Support USDC Trading Starting November 17
Binance — one of the most popular digital currency exchanges across the globe — has announced that it will be adding the fiat-collateralized stablecoin USD Coin (USDC) to its trading platform on November 17, …
OKCoin Adds the Argentine Peso as It Eyes Expansion Into Latin America
Despite a prolonged cryptocurrency bear market and regulatory uncertainties, OKCoin, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, is expanding to Latin America launching a new exchange platform headq…
Op Ed: Cryptocurrency’s Unrealized Opportunities for U.S. Tax Professionals
The market for cryptocurrency tax services is growing rapidly, and it is providing forward-thinking tax professionals with an opportunity to capture oversized profits.While we’ve seen the market cap of bitcoin …